All web server documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials will be removed from a production web server.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-13621	WG385	SV-14207r2_rule	ECSC-1	High

Description
Web server documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials may be an exploitable threat to a web server. A production web server may only contain components that are operationally necessary (e.g., compiled code, scripts, web-content, etc.). Delete all directories that contain samples and any scripts used to execute the samples. If there is a requirement to maintain these directories at the site on non-production servers for training purposes, have NTFS permissions set to only allow access to authorized users (i.e., web admins and administrators). Sample applications or scripts have not been evaluated and approved for use and may introduce vulnerabilities to the system.

Description

Web server documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials may be an exploitable threat to a web server. A production web server may only contain components that are operationally necessary (e.g., compiled code, scripts, web-content, etc.). Delete all directories that contain samples and any scripts used to execute the samples. If there is a requirement to maintain these directories at the site on non-production servers for training purposes, have NTFS permissions set to only allow access to authorized users (i.e., web admins and administrators). Sample applications or scripts have not been evaluated and approved for use and may introduce vulnerabilities to the system.

STIG	Date
Web Server STIG	2010-10-07

Details

Check Text ( C-30005r1_chk )
Query the SA to determine if all directories that contain samples and any scripts used to execute the samples have been removed from the server. Each web server has its own list of sample files. This may change with the software versions, but the following are some examples of what to look for (This should not be the definitive list of sample files, but only an example of the common samples that are provided with the associated web server. This list will be updated as additional information is discovered.): IIS: \inetpub\iissamples\. Apache: \apache\manual\. If there is a requirement to maintain these directories at the site for training or other such purposes, have permissions or set the permissions to only allow access to authorized users. If any sample files are found on the web server, this is a finding. NOTE: For IIS installations, the presence of the Adminscripts directory would not be a finding if the permissions were restricted to web administrators.

Check Text ( C-30005r1_chk )

Query the SA to determine if all directories that contain samples and any scripts used to execute the samples have been removed from the server.

Each web server has its own list of sample files. This may change with the software versions, but the following are some examples of what to look for (This should not be the definitive list of sample files, but only an example of the common samples that are provided with the associated web server. This list will be updated as additional information is discovered.):

IIS: \inetpub\iissamples\*.*
Apache: \apache\manual\*.*

If there is a requirement to maintain these directories at the site for training or other such purposes, have permissions or set the permissions to only allow access to authorized users.

If any sample files are found on the web server, this is a finding.

NOTE: For IIS installations, the presence of the Adminscripts directory would not be a finding if the permissions were restricted to web administrators.

Fix Text (F-26856r1_fix)
Ensure sample code and documentation have been removed from the web server.